Definition of High Church

1. Noun. A group in the Anglican Church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition (especially in sacraments and rituals and obedience to church authority).

Exact synonyms: High Anglican Church
Category relationships: Church, Church Service
Generic synonyms: Religious Order, Religious Sect, Sect

Lexicographical Neighbors of High Church

Higgitt
Higgon
Higgs
Higgs-like
Higgs boson
Higgs bosons
Higgs field
Higgs mechanism
Higgs particle
Higgses
Higgsino
Higgsinos
Higgsless
High Anglican Church
High Anglicanism
High Church (current term)
High Commission
High Dam
High German
High Holiday
High Holy Day
High Middle Ages
High Renaissance
High Sierra
High Street
Highbury
Higher Intermediate Fare
Higher Intermediate Point
Higher National Diploma

Literary usage of High Church

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1854)
"Reasons why the High Church are the most wicked of all Men. 19. Ecclesiastical Authority ... A Comparison between the High Church and the Quakers. 33. ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Since his day a large liberty of opinion has been allowed and practised in the Church of England on the question of ritual and episcopacy; the High-church ..."

3. The Contemporary Review (1892)
"THE PRESENT POSITION OF THE High Church PARTY. f PHE revival of interest in matters ecclesiastical, which has been the J_ necessary result of certain recent ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Froude's "Remains" were a challenge to it in one way, as the "Library of the Fathers" was in another, and yet again the ponderous "Catenas" of High Church ..."

5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1889)
"High Church CONGREGATIONALISM. THE term High Churchman is commonly limited to Episcopalians. This is natural, as it originated among them. ..."

6. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1845)
"But this proposition, whatever moderation it might express, was unsuccessful. A majority, consisting of the High Church Party, was unwilling to concede any ..."

7. A History of England by James Franck Bright (1880)
"Thus was formed the High Church party, and thus sprang up the idea of the Divine right of Episcopacy, which produced such fatal consequences in subsequent ..."

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